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Honey Boo Boo family squabbles online following show cancellation

Mama June and Honey Boo Boo in happier times, shortly after the show debuted in 2012. Photo: Jennifer Brett

With the TLC show “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” axed amid allegations that the show’s matriarch has been keeping time with a convicted child molester, members of the middle Georgia clan have taken to squabbling with each other about the situation online.

For a minute it looked like Lee Thompson, the brother of June’s former beau and Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson’s dad Mike “Sugar Bear” Thompson, was going to stay out of it. That didn’t last.

In a series of posts on his public Facebook page, Thompson, known as “Uncle Poodle” on the show, accused his brother’s former partner of cheating on Sugar Bear with the ex-con.

“Why not just be honest for a change?” he posted. “You may try to bash me or dig up old dirt but honestly none of it compares to how you have treated my brother and allowed a convicted child molester who molested your oldest daughter to be around your 14 and 9-year-olds.

“Uncle Poodle” has been discussing the matter on his public Facebook page.

“Then you tell me if I step foot on your property you’d call the police on me for trespassing after I told my brother EVERYTHING with photographic evidence …It’s not anyone else but you who (bleeped) up, then lied and had your 14-year-old lie as well. And now you can’t get out of that hole you dug, so don’t blame me for YOUR problems.”

June’s eldest daughter, 20-year-old Anna Marie Cardwell, told People magazine that registered sex offender Mark McDaniel “would try and touch me and all that stuff” when she was 8. He was June’s boyfriend at the time. Anna said she isn’t sure what to believe but told People “I would feel hurt” if the rumors are true.

One of June’s other daughters, 14-year-old Lauryn, known as “Pumpkin” on the show, has defended her mom in an all-caps Instagram post, among other public pronouncements:

“THIS HERE IS UNCLE POODLE AND HIS MAN. THEY ARE UPSET BC THE SHOW WAS CANCELLED AND THEY NO LONGER HAVE MONEY. THEY HAVE BEEN SELLING FALSE STORIES AND MAKING MONEY. HE TOLD ME EARLIER TODAY THAT HE HOPED MY MOM GOT CANCER AND DIED OF A SLOW PAINFUL DEATH. GET THIS HE IS 30 YEARS OLD TELLING A 14 YEAR OLD THIS. EVERY STORY THATS OUT RIGHT NOW HE HAS PUT OUT AND ITS ALL FALSE. HE JUST THINKS IT ALL FUN AND GAMES SELLING FAMILY OUT BUT KARMA IS A BITCH TRUST ME I KNOW HER PERSONALLY. SO IMMA SIT BACK AND LAUGH BC WHEN THE TRUTH COMES OUT YOUR (bleeped).”

Responded Poodle (who is only Alana’s uncle; Sugar Bear is Alana’s dad but June’s other daughters have different fathers):

“I guess the truth hurts I mean y’all two just tell the truth and stop lying but guess that’s what you two are good for.”

June accused Poodle of selling information to TMZ in an angry message that he posted on his Facebook page: “It’s Uncle Poodle selling all these stories cause his gravy train has ran out.”

She also again denied the allegations.

“My kids are my #1 priority,” she said. “This is my past … the truth will all come out.”

It seems clear that someone close to June took the photos that TMZ ran. The images include one of June and McDaniel in a hotel room, and one of them touring a home. But Poodle says it wasn’t him.

“June and Pumpkin are pissed because they was caught up in a lie,” he posted. “I never sold a story.”

On Tuesday morning, he posted a new message saying he is moving on. He’d removed all the back-and-forth and replaced it with this:

“Cleaned up my page a bit, venting over, new day, start fresh…after a shower! No more about June and them, talked to a really good friend and she was right, let it all go there’s nothing I can do about it. Just worry about me and mine and don’t worry about them. I love all them regardless of the situation, all I can hope for is right choices and to be frank we have all made bad ones this year. You live, you learn, just let go and relax. Hope everyone has a great day!”

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The so-called mother is disgustingly obese, I can't imagine anyone would even take money to be with her, but obviously there must be a lot of stupid men in that town and only one sick woman if all the kids have different fathers. She's with or was with a child molester what does that say about her. Her kids should come first and they're not. She seems to be doing what SHE wants. All the children that are left at home should be taken away and she should be charged with child neglect. The children don't have a hope as long as their around that woman. And the 20 yr. old should press charges against the animal that molested her and bring charges against mother for not protecting her. That beached whale would do really well in prison.

I am so happy that show has been cancelled, I can't believe something like that would even pass for actual television viewing. They can complain all they want that they are broke, they should've saved money over the last ? years on TV.

They all need to go to school, educate themselves and learn to speak ENGLISH. You'd think they all just crawled out from under a bush. Trailer trash is too good of a term for them.

I can't see giving them any more of my time. Take the kids away from the mom and charge her with whatever you can.

It is sad for the children involved BUT BUT BUT … How is it
when we first came out with this foolish show so so many people hopped on this
band wagon and hollered they would rather watch this then to watch them LOUD
MOUTH ATLANTA HOUSEWIVES (not my words)… But ratchet comes in all forms and
colors as we now can see……. Lesson here is that television and society
EXPLOITED THIS young child when knowing full well the behavior, antics and
words coming from her mouth was totally unacceptable. Truth be told this is not
new it is something that has been going on for a while and the truth finally
surfaced. The pictures are the proof in the pudding unless they were altered
and June is not saying the pictures are fake.. We know if TMZ paid for the
pictures then there is some validity to them. That is fact however if no one can
talk about the welfare of these minor kids then why even talk period … Sure
some of these reality shows are not what they need to be but when millions of people
watch them we are saying we accept this…. Thank goodness the people in charge
saw thru the information and cancelled them… The problem is she should be in
jail for endangering her children’s welfare for a piece of a man….A talley wack a freakin CHILD MOLESTOR… He
could not have lived one JAIL released him… If he did that to my minor child I
would still be waiting on them to remove my foot out of his throat form his
behind.. REAL TALK…. She is the one they should lock up as well as him because
I am sure there are some ;aws that state he should not have been around those
involved in this case that sent him to jail as well as the victim and any other
minor children … For the record Mike should be mad as heck with her for taking their
child around this monster…

Every family has it's f–ups. It's just that this family seems to have many more than average and is on TV for people to watch – up close and personal. I've never watched the program and, from what I've seen in the news, I think I never will.

@gadem She picks child molesters because that's all she can get. This is her second one. Seriously something wrong in her head. All the girls have different fathers and no one knows who the father of Lauryn is.